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Editor:
I am part of the lingering left. I do not refer to myself as 'progressive', but as an old-fashioned liberal. I am not going to veer into long winded hyperbole here. I just want to say that I feel including an organization in our midst that glorifies pedophilia is just plain stupid.
Most in our community are not pedophiles. Most adults would find the idea of having sex with children downright revolting. The 'right' to have sex with children is indefensible. Just because a homeless youth might be willing to have sex with an older man in order to acquire housing, food, gifts or money - that hardly makes such acquiescence 'consent'.
The article entitled 'NAMBLA at the Feast of Human Rights' suggests that we ought to consider pedophiles the equivalent of radical faeries or our leather brothers and sisters, or S & M devotees. Come on! None of the latter perpetuates the statutory rape of children.
Having worked in the field of sexual abuse prevention for many years I have seen the long term physical and emotional scars such abuse can leave. Please!
Marti Backus
